KARACHI: Highlighting the stark challenges Pakistan face in the education sector, speakers at a book launch said teachers had a central role in the quality of learning outcomes and their participation in decision-making was crucial to elevate the status of teaching profession. Titled Baatein Kitab Ki, the launch was organised by the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED) for the book Teaching and Teacher Education in Pakistan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives authored
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MUZAFFARGARH: A local court in Muzaffargarh acquitted the accused who slit the throats of his three minor sisters after the parents of the deceased girls pardoned their son. The accused admitted to the crime during a police interrogation. However, after nearly one year of his arrest, Additional Sessions Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Asif issued an acquittal order for the accused, following the parents’ consent to forgive their son. The heart-wrenching incident occurred on July 18,
HYDERABAD: A woman allegedly killed her teenage daughter before committing suicide at her residence located near Nara Jail in Hyderabad on 13 September 2024. The SHO SITE police station Imran Rasheed Shaikh told the media that initial investigations suggest that the deceased 45-year-old Bakhtawar gave sleep-inducing pills to her daughter. He added that when the girl fell unconscious her mother tied her hands and feet before strangling her to death. She later hanged herself
Al-Shifa Trust screened approximately 175,000 students over the past year in 550 free eye camps held in underserved areas nationwide. About 50% of the children screened had vision issues, with many experiencing hazy vision and some suffering from congenital cataracts, said Al-Shifa Centre for Community Ophthalmology (ACCO) Deputy General Manager, Dr Hasan Raza. Speaking to the media, Dr Hasan shared that 50% of the affected children suffered from blurry vision also called convergence insufficiency
SAHIWAL: The district police, in collaboration with the education department, has engaged over 150 headmistresses and headteachers from public and private sectors to raise awareness about sexual harassment within and outside school premises. Headteachers from 30 private schools of Sahiwal and Chichawatni tehsils were invited for a dialogue. The primary goal of the 120-minute dialogue was to educate headteachers and enable them to understand and subsequently inform their girl students about the distinction between
LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department (SED) on 13th September launched a monitoring system to ensure teachers’ attendance in all public schools, expecting to enhance the overall quality of education in the province. The department has introduced a comprehensive monitoring system aimed at ensuring strict adherence to duty hours by school principals and teachers. This initiative is part of a broader effort to enhance the quality of education and maintain discipline within schools. In
LAHORE: A minor girl was allegedly tortured to death in her Baghbanpura home on Shalimar Road on 13th September 2024. The body of Muskan (8) showed clear signs of torture. Authorities took her father and stepmother into custody for interrogation after neighbours claimed they had previously abused the girl over trivial matters. A police official said that a next-door neighbour alerted them when they heard the girl crying. Upon arriving at the scene, police
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on 13th September 2024 informed that the Sindh Child Protection Authority was working in close coordination with the provincial police to conduct anti-child beggary drive for rescuing children who were forced to be involved in this worst form of child labour. Furnishing statement and replies of lawmakers’ written and verbal queries during Question Hour, Social Welfare Minister Tariq Ali Talpur said the organised beggary was a business of multi-million
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has sought a comprehensive report from the Sindh chief secretary on the implementation of the Sukkur Bench order on a petition against the non-implementation of the policy of provision of early childhood education. A hearing in this regard was held before a two-member bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar. The lawyer of the petitioner, Usman Farooq Advocate, stated that the policy of provision of early childhood education has
KARACHI: An allegedly mentally unstable woman tossed her three young daughters into an underground water storage tank before jumping in herself in a tragic incident that happened in Bakhtawar Goth, Sukhan, on 12-September-2024. The mother and two of the girls drowned, while the third daughter managed to survive, according to local police. Police said that the deceased woman, identified as 35-year-old Shamaila, took her daughters, two-year-old Yusra, four-year-old Rohab, and seven-year-old Sara, to the
NAROWAL: The Government Girls Elementary School at Mardwal village, Shakargarh tehsil, has been submerged by sewage water for two years and the students are forced to walk through dirty and smelly water to reach classrooms and washrooms. Students and teachers reach the classrooms through dirty and smelly water every day. About two-foot dirty water has accumulated on the premises of the girls’ school. The students put their desks in the dirty water to go
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Country Representative Unicef Sharmeela Rasool on 12th September 2024 said the world was in the climate crisis mode as the problem was no longer of the future, but of the present. She was speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Climate-Compatible Education’ held at the Institute of Regional Studies on Thursday. Ms Rasool said when we talk about climate crisis, we should not forget about the biodiversity loss that the world is going